Baltimore County Public Schools

What the Numbers Say About Baltimore County Public Schools

Baltimore County Public Schools is a large urban school district in Maryland, serving 111,136 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $18,242. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $101,855, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2400120 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Maryland statewide average of $107,429, teacher pay in Baltimore County Public Schools runs materially below the state benchmark — a 5.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (23.8% differential). Among enrolling districts in Maryland, it pays more than 50% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Baltimore County Public Schools reports $2027.3M in total expenditure against $2139.7M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 37% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $502.7M, special-education teacher pay is $106.5M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.